St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-14
EUROPEAN WAR CLOUDS.
France and Bulgaria the Centers of Agi-
tations Which May Result in
Great War.
What Russia Is Able to Do as an Answer
to the Bold Defiance of Prince
Ferdinand.
The Boulangist Trouble Liable to Lead to
Revolt Which Will Convulse
ALI Gaul.
Probable Consequences of the Procla-
nation of the National League
Foreign Notes.
By Cable to the Glope.

LONDON, aug. 13.-Ine acUlOn OF
Prince Ferdinand, of SaXe-Coburg, in
going to Sofia and the demonstrations
of "BOulangists'' in France have again
made the Bulgarian and French from
tiers possible storm centers. Prince
Ferdinand is bOlder man than he has
been thought to be. According to latest
reports. after taking the oath as Prince
of Bulgaria, he will leave the country
for a period in order to visit the courts
of the great powers and 3btain their
recognition. Prince Ferdinand has pre-
Sumbably counted the cost of this pro-
ceeding beforehand, but to an outsider
it would appear to be the
BEST POSSIBLE METHOD
of cOurting the refusal of Russia if that
were his object The prince calculates
that he can conciliate the cZar by dis
missing the regents, dissolving the
SObranje and ordering new elections.
But Russia's objections to his nomina-
ton are not such as can be overcome by
a stroke of policy, however decisive.
Prince Ferdinand is Catholic. and the
car is committed to uphold the Greek
church. Prince Ferdinand is married
to a granddaughter of Louis Philippe,
which makes him Objectionable to the
cZar'S closest alley-the French republic
and as a sort of climax he is an Aus
trian officer and friend of England. The
death of NJ. KatkOff has only slightly
increased the chances of peace in
Europe. AT the same time it must not
be forgotten that the cZar is a disciple
of KathOff, and that the set Of ideas rep
resented by the Moscow Gazette are at
The visit of Prince Ferdinand to Bull
garia may bring Oh a crisis in which the
Russian government will have to decide
upon a course Of action. Already lead
ing authorities are warning their re-
Spectiye governments through the press
not to estimate too lightly the strength
of the Russian empire in taking action
regarding the recognition of Prince
Ferdinand. These writers dwell upon
the fact that of all European states, Rus
Sia has by far the largest homogeneous
population, which numbers some Co.
100000. No other European people is at
the same time so religious and patriotic.
The Russian army in time of peace num-
berS between 100000 and 100000, and in
case Of war the czar could easily mobil-
iZe 100000 of trained soldiers. With
these resources and with a unity of
feeling such as no democratic country
possesses, the Russian policy in the
East, which really aims at the conquest
of ConstantinOple and of Turkey, can
only be overthrown by all the
other European powers, laying
aside their QuarrelS and combining
to oppose the Russian advance. The
Russians themselves believe in their
own power and in their own future, and
believe themselves perfectly able, in
case of need, to cope with the rest of
Europe. This should be borne in mind
in judging of the varying phases of
THE EASTERN QUESTION
that have lately amused or interested
the Western European people, and
which seem likely to be followed by
further Kaleidoscope changes. The
cZar has hitherto refused to recognize
the existence of any government in Bull
garia. He has SteadfaStly refused to
recognize the regency and the various
representative assemblies cOnvOked by
of the cZar is to recognize no
government in Bulgaria until that
country is surrendered to himself.
This will undoubtedly continue to be his
policy and Prince Ferdinand of COburg,
or any other prince who may be elected,
will have either to take his orders from
st. Petersburg or to fight for his throne
against the Russian empire. If Prince
Ferdinand should choose the latter his
action will bring with it the lOng-pOSt-
pOned European war. This is the con-
tingency that is at present making other
European powers so urgent in pushing
forward to completeness the OrganiZa-
ton of their naval and military de-
fenSeS.
1t is daily becoming more evident that
collision between France and Ger
many in the near future can only be
aVerted by dealing
SEVERE AND DECISIVE BLOW g,
at the pTetentiOnS of the ''BOulangiStS." :"
The action of those who demonstrate"
persistently in favor Of the eX-miniSter
of war, and who applaud to the echo
every utterance that approves his atti-
tude, serves only to eXaSperate nation
which is awaiting some valid preteXt
for war. The incidents which have of
late occupied French and German diplO-
mats in Slackening the tension between
the two countries have revealed moth
ing if they have not disclosed the fact
that the policy of the former is of an un-
decided character. Those who find
anything wonderful in the popularity of
the daShing cavalry leader, Gen. BOu-
LANCER, either by reason of the sudden
ness of its birth, or on account OF its ell
thusiaStic intensity, betray ignorance
of the character of the Gaul, and es-
pecially of the Partisan Gaul, which a
peruSal Of the revolutionary history of
the country, wherein stable government
appears to be an improbability.
will cure. Voltaire has described
the character of the dwellers in
what Victor Hugo delighted to call the
''city of light" as combination of the
worst qualities of the monkey and the
tiger. This mischievous ferOcity, or fe-
rOciOuS miSchieVOusneSs, is what at pres
ent constitutes the danger to the peace
of Europe. 1t is this very popularity of
the French people which makes a man
of the parts and idiosyncraSieS of Gen.
Boulanger acceptable to the Parisians
He alone is the man to give practical
shape to their passionate yearning to
avenge the triumphant entry of the
German hordeS into their city sixteen
years ago. The ignomancy of the defeat
which the Germans put upon their con-
Quered foes was
BROUGHT HOME
to the inhabitants of the gay city more
Vividly, perhaps, than to those of any
other of the French towns. 1t is for this
reason that La Reyanche finds Paris its
most earnest apostle, and there the hero
of the propaganda finds his most en-
thusiastic admirers and supporters. 1t
is said, and with some degree
of truth. that Paris is
not France: but accepting that
Statement In the political sensein which
If is used. it is G strange fact, and one
whose significance it will not be well to
ignore. that all resolutions of modern
times and most of the movements which